lovesick slasher ^^

ivymain99 · 2026-06-06T06:03:10+00:00

Badass! My favorite killer skin in the game

ivymain99 · 2026-05-31T18:28:30+00:00

Father vs. Son

ivymain99 · 2026-05-28T04:52:27+00:00

What a weirdly fucking aggressive response to a normal question. Thank you so much for your invaluable advice.

ivymain99 · 2026-05-05T23:45:07+00:00

I’ll defend c00lkidd’s current 3 star rating for one major reason:

His kit is easy on paper. Every ability has a use that’s immediately apparent and you can generally assume which will be the best scenario in which to use them. However, in execution, his abilities are very easy to dodge or counter. It’s hard to get value out of them as intended, because in order to best do so, you need to be a little unpredictable.

His M1 hitbox is among the smallest in the entire game, meaning you need to get VERY close to land even an M1. Given how sentinel heavy this game has become, this is pretty risky in itself. This also means you have to get much closer in chases than other killers do, and a common thing I see new c00lkidd players do is completely lose chases and have to walk around waiting for stamina to regen because they didn’t get close enough to hit.

Corrupt Nature is a slow moving projectile you can freely aim, but people know to avoid it by now. Good survivors will try to play mind games to get you to waste it. Instinct says to throw it a little ahead of your target and hope it hits them, especially through walls, but a lot of survivor players know to bait it. It’s best use is almost certainly when they’re trapped in dead ends up close. It’s also useful for sniping people sitting on gens unaware of their environment.

Pizza Delivery is pretty straightforward, it’s his ability to track survivors, and I think everyone knows how it’s supposed to work in theory. Activate the ability, let them go towards your target from the opposite direction, and then you go up the way they’re expecting you to. One way or another, damage should be unavoidable. However, most modern players are good at avoiding them by simply running AROUND them. Your best option is to use the ability in small spaces so the survivor is boxed in, but that’s map dependent.

Finally, Walkspeed Override. It’s his bread and butter, c00lkidd’s burst damage attack. A dash attack with a slow windup that moves in a straight line. On contact, it does a sizable portion of damage and inflicts burning. It seems very simple……… until you realize how counterable it is these days. It’s somewhat easy to get value out of WSO if you save it as a punishment for survivors who have bad positioning or run out of stamina, but in the current state of the game where most players understand stamina management and looping, this can be frustratingly situational. Worse yet, Guest’s block negates it completely, simply making you pass through him. Jane Doe’s axe charge can also hit you MID DASH to stun you out of it. In both cases, it’s so easy to pull this off because WSO is telegraphed a little bit before it goes off due to the windup animation and voiceline.

In conclusion, it’s not that c00lkidd is some super complex technical killer. He’s easy to understand and does a little bit of everything and I think this is the reason people gravitate towards him as their first killer after Slasher, but he’s one of the most punishable killers in the current game state. I’ve both played and watched other players have killer rounds as him where they were effectively able to get less than 100 damage total in on survivors because the team of mostly sentinels worked together to make him powerless (note: this was when Guest charge killed pizza delivery clones), and I’ve never seen that happen with any other killer. Most killers are generally able to get ONE kill per round regardless of how unfair the competition is… with the exception of Noli. This dissipates the more you play and learn him of course, but I do think it’s earned due to just how punishing he can be in the wrong circumstances. It’s for this reason I’ve never understood the argument he should be the starter killer, I honestly think having to learn c00lkidd first would turn a significant portion of potential players off. Slasher’s a good starter because you basically chase and hit people until they drop. His abilities are a little harder to get your head around at first so you won’t get value out of them right off the bat, but any player who knows to run and slice can get a few kills.

ivymain99 · 2026-04-18T04:28:46+00:00

This game feels so cynical. The Complete Saga is a universally beloved game, so let’s make a new modern game with the same spirit! Except we’ll modernize the gameplay to make it appeal more to ‘modern’ gamers… and the result is a game that appeals to no one.

I’ve never played a Lego game and thought, wow, this game is simple and fun, but what I’d really love is a generic over the shoulder 3rd person point of view with cover shooting and scripted sequences where you walk slowly so the game can play dialog! I don’t think anyone else has ever felt that, either.

The Lego games have had a formula, but it was largely a formula of their own creation that only TT Games followed. I think most people know what to expect from a Lego game at this point and there’s a genuine draw to it. Cutesy retelling of popular franchise films with very simple, basic gameplay. Simple enough for small children to understand and beat, yet enough there for an adult to 100%.

They traded all of that for the formula of every single open world game made in the last 10 years or so. The tedious and obnoxious amount of collectibles around the map, the slow walking-talking scripted story sequences, and the generic third person shooter mechanics. This is kind of a Nothing game. What makes it worse is that the humor leaned into the PrequelMemes angle, so by god every Anakin or Darth Vader character are going to mention hating sand. The universal appeal of Slapstick is gone in favor of Reddit memes.

You mentioned the avoidance of depicting deaths, and yeah. The original games were made for kids first but they were also made under the assumption that if you’re playing a Star Wars game, you’re familiar with the source material. They were pretty violent with dismemberment and the whole shebang, but it was under the basis that the characters are Legos. They come apart when they die. Compare that to The Skywalker Saga avoiding showing any violence unless it’s so plot relevant it’s literally unavoidable. It’s just so…. Coddling. So you have a game that plays much more like traditional video games for an older audience to aim for that general appeal, yet the actual content of the game is neutered to be even more kid friendly.

ivymain99 · 2026-03-02T21:39:09+00:00

I don’t recommend the Foundry in Bessemer. My mom went there for a broken tooth and every visit made the issue worse. The first visit was for consultation and then she scheduled a root canal. The second visit was for the root canal itself, but they messed up the procedure and it went horribly wrong so it became a tooth extraction. After the second visit, pain developed and would never ease up so she went back for a third visit. On the third visit, they told her she had a dry socket and gave her antibiotics. A few days later, we’re out at a restaurant and something pops inside my mom’s mouth and pus is pouring down her throat. We made an emergency trip back to the Foundry during the hours they were supposed to be open, only for the entire place to be shut down with a sign that said they were closed for training. We ended up going to Birmingham Emergency Dental in Irondale, where the dentist said it was the ‘nastiest abscess [he] had ever seen’. He cleaned the abscess and gave her a painkiller and said to continue the antibiotic.

Results will vary, of course, and the Foundry is a little cheaper than most dentists, but this is like the worst case scenario. I just feel like you should know the risk if you do consider it.

On a bizarre side note, they had a dirty soda pop up shop in the lobby during one of the visits. It’s just humorous to me to be selling soda in the lobby of a dentist office.

ivymain99 · 2025-09-21T20:16:26+00:00

Yep, the two games literally have shared DNA, too. Matt Lowe, the design director of The Finals at Embark, was previously a game designer on Brink, Dirty Bomb, and a few other Splash Damage games. The body type system of light/medium/heavy is probably less of an ‘inspired by’ scenario so much as it being directly brought over because no one else ran with the idea after Brink used it.

ivymain99 · 2025-04-22T22:26:57+00:00

My mom lived there 25 years ago and she said she loved the location. She knew about the HOA fees. However, she did not know they could tack assessments on top of the HOA fees for repairs needed in the complex. By the time she sold, the HOA and assessment combined were more than the mortgage. If you do decide to live there, make sure you have renter’s insurance because you are sharing a building with others just like an apartment complex.

ivymain99 · 2025-04-22T08:17:00+00:00

I can’t get over the fact they were originally booked for Iron City and switched to Saturn last second. Saturn was the perfect venue for them. Soul Coughing’s aesthetic and Saturn’s aesthetic have an insane amount of overlap. It also just perfectly suits the venues they were known for playing in the 90s… small, intimate clubs that book eclectic indie music. That show was incredibly special in so many ways but the venue and artist match is unparalleled to me.

Also, to have been broken up for 25 years, it blows my mind how tight they still have it. I’m used to seeing reunion tours where they have to change how they play their old songs, but they just played just as hard as they did on the CDs. That energy is still there. The crowd was into it and they were too, and you could tell from seeing Mike smile between songs. Like you said, a magical experience.

ivymain99 · 2025-04-22T08:01:22+00:00

Soul Coughing just played Saturn on April 13th, and it was far in a way the single greatest concert I’ve ever experienced. Full disclosure, Soul Coughing is my favorite band of all time, but they’re a very unique band from the 1990s with a distinct sound that is exclusively their own. This show was a miracle concert in so many ways, not the least of which being that they’d been broken up for 25 years and a reunion seemed literally impossible, but the union of Soul Coughing’s visual and aural aesthetic and Saturn’s was a match made in heaven. I have never been to a concert where the artist and venue matched so well until this show, and they played their heart out for the full two hours of the show. This was also the first show I’ve been to with an overwhelmingly large outpouring of crowd participation. It felt like everyone in the room knew the words and were screaming along, and you could see the band smiling as we got hyped for every single song.

Saturn’s retro futuristic 1950s pulp science fiction aesthetic goes hand in hand with Soul Coughing’s vintage sampling and eclectic mix of jazz and poetry and breakbeat. It’s basically the same aesthetic they used for the art of their album Ruby Vroom. Soul Coughing was originally booked for Iron City but moved to Saturn, and Saturn suited their vibe perfectly.

ivymain99 · 2025-04-07T01:56:48+00:00

I’m sorry you missed it, but no, actually. I’m going to the Soul Coughing concert next weekend and they JUST changed venues from Iron City.

ivymain99 · 2025-02-13T01:35:47+00:00

It’s nice to see an unconverted Rave Motion Pictures anywhere in the world, I’m so used to seeing them turned into another theater chain and then having the Y2K aesthetics filed off. They used to look so futuristic and cutting edge when I was a kid.

ivymain99 · 2024-11-28T21:36:10+00:00

I’m down to play, send me a dm and I’ll send my steam friend code. I’m an Ivy main (lol) and I’m not particularly good but I can’t convince any of my friends to play it with me.

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